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Malaria

MSF launches malaria intervention in Mumbai, India

Following a sharp increase in malaria cases in Mumbai, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has launched a malaria intervention to help local health authorities fight the disease.
 Press Release - 19 Aug 2009
 
HIV/Aids

Increasing access to antiretroviral care in rural Malawi

Malawi is among the ten countries of the world with the highest prevalence of HIV.

Despite a dire shortage of health workers and high levels of poverty, the Malawian government has introduced a ‘public health’ model of care that relies on non-physician clinicians to deliver antiretroviral drugs (ARV).
 Report - 30 Jun 2009
 
Malnutrition

MSF Somalia booklet 2008

For many years Somalis have endured violence, displacement, malnutrition and a severe lack of access to adequate health care. Sadly 2008 was no different.

 
 Report - 15 Jun 2009
 
South Africa

No Refuge, Access Denied: Medical and Humanitarian Needs of Zimbabweans in South Africa

Each day, thousands of Zimbabweans cross the border into South Africa, many risking their lives to flee economic meltdown, political turmoil, and a critical lack of access to health care in their country.
 Report - 31 May 2009
 
HIV/Aids

Surgical task shifting in Sub-Saharan Africa

A report on 'Surgical task shifting in Sub-Saharan Africa'
 Briefing Document - 30 Apr 2009
 
Drug-resistant TB

Patient -centered approach to drug resistant tuberculosis treatment in Khayelitsha

Increasing numbers of patients are being diagnosed with drug resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) in Khayelitsha. Diagnosing and providing effective treatment to sufficient numbers of patients, the majority of whom are also HIV-positive, are central to reducing.
 Briefing Document - 1 Mar 2009
 
Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis: The big challenge "We are talking, people are dying"

A booklet about Doctors Without Borders (MSF) effort in fighting HIV/TB co-infection in Swaziland.
 Book - 28 Feb 2009
 
Sachets of the TB drug Delamanid, Khayelitsha
Activity Report

Khayelitsha annual activity report 2008-09

Providing HIV and TB care at the primary health care level: MSF’s Khayelitsha programme was the first in South Africa to provide antiretroviral therapy (ART) in the public sector at the primary health care level.
 Report - 4 Feb 2009
 
HIV/Aids

Providing HIV/TB care at the primary health care level

The Khayelitsha programme was the first in South Africa to provide antiretroviral therapy (ART) at primary care in the public sector. It is also one of two pilot projects in the country to provide decentralized care for drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB).
 Report - 4 Feb 2009
 
Cholera

Beyond cholera: Zimbabwe's worsening crisis

Violence, sexual abuse, harassment, appalling living conditions, and a serious lack of access to essential healthcare, define the desperate lives of thousands of Zimbabweans in South Africa today, warns international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders.
 Report - 31 Jan 2009